tabula

High level interfaces

tabula.io

This module is a wrapper of tabula, which enables table extraction from a PDF.

This module extracts tables from a PDF into a pandas DataFrame. Currently, the implementation of this module uses subprocess.

Instead of importing this module, you can import public interfaces such as read_pdf(), read_pdf_with_template(), convert_into(), convert_into_by_batch() from tabula module directory.

Note

If you want to use your own tabula-java JAR file, set TABULA_JAR to environment variable for JAR path.

Example

>>> import tabula
>>> df = tabula.read_pdf("/path/to/sample.pdf", pages="all")
tabula.io.convert_into(input_path: Union[IO, str, os.PathLike], output_path: str, output_format: str = 'csv', java_options: Optional[List[str]] = None, pages: Union[str, int, List[int], None] = None, guess: bool = True, area: Union[Iterable[float], Iterable[Iterable[float]], None] = None, relative_area: bool = False, lattice: bool = False, stream: bool = False, password: Optional[str] = None, silent: Optional[bool] = None, columns: Optional[List[float]] = None, format: Optional[str] = None, batch: Optional[str] = None, options: str = '') → None[source]

Convert tables from PDF into a file. Output file will be saved into output_path.

Parameters:
  • input_path (file like obj) – File like object of target PDF file.
  • output_path (str) – File path of output file.
  • output_format (str, optional) – Output format of this function (csv, json or tsv). Default: csv
  • java_options (list, optional) –

    Set java options

    Example

    "-Xmx256m".

  • pages (str, int, list of int, optional) –

    An optional values specifying pages to extract from. It allows str,`int`, list of :int. Default: 1

    Examples

    '1-2,3', 'all', [1,2]

  • guess (bool, optional) –

    Guess the portion of the page to analyze per page. Default True If you use “area” option, this option becomes False.

    Note

    As of tabula-java 1.0.3, guess option becomes independent from lattice and stream option, you can use guess and lattice/stream option at the same time.

  • area (list of float, list of list of float, optional) –

    Portion of the page to analyze(top,left,bottom,right). Default is entire page.

    Note

    If you want to use multiple area options and extract in one table, it should be better to set multiple_tables=False for read_pdf()

    Examples

    [269.875,12.75,790.5,561], [[12.1,20.5,30.1,50.2], [1.0,3.2,10.5,40.2]]

  • relative_area (bool, optional) – If all area values are between 0-100 (inclusive) and preceded by '%', input will be taken as % of actual height or width of the page. Default False.
  • lattice (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using lattice-mode extraction (if there are ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • stream (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using stream-mode extraction (if there are no ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • password (str, optional) – Password to decrypt document. Default: empty
  • silent (bool, optional) – Suppress all stderr output.
  • columns (list, optional) –

    X coordinates of column boundaries.

    Example

    [10.1, 20.2, 30.3]

  • format (str, optional) – Format for output file or extracted object. ("CSV", "TSV", "JSON")
  • batch (str, optional) – Convert all PDF files in the provided directory. This argument should be directory path.
  • options (str, optional) – Raw option string for tabula-java.
Raises:
  • FileNotFoundError – If downloaded remote file doesn’t exist.
  • ValueError – If output_format is unknown format, or if downloaded remote file size is 0.
  • tabula.errors.JavaNotFoundError – If java is not installed or found.
  • subprocess.CalledProcessError – If tabula-java execution failed.
tabula.io.convert_into_by_batch(input_dir: str, output_format: str = 'csv', java_options: Optional[List[str]] = None, pages: Union[str, int, List[int], None] = None, guess: bool = True, area: Union[Iterable[float], Iterable[Iterable[float]], None] = None, relative_area: bool = False, lattice: bool = False, stream: bool = False, password: Optional[str] = None, silent: Optional[bool] = None, columns: Optional[List[float]] = None, format: Optional[str] = None, output_path: Optional[str] = None, options: str = '') → None[source]

Convert tables from PDFs in a directory.

Parameters:
  • input_dir (str) – Directory path.
  • output_format (str, optional) – Output format of this function (csv, json or tsv)
  • java_options (list, optional) – Set java options like -Xmx256m.
  • pages (str, int, list of int, optional) –

    An optional values specifying pages to extract from. It allows str,`int`, list of :int. Default: 1

    Examples

    '1-2,3', 'all', [1,2]

  • guess (bool, optional) –

    Guess the portion of the page to analyze per page. Default True If you use “area” option, this option becomes False.

    Note

    As of tabula-java 1.0.3, guess option becomes independent from lattice and stream option, you can use guess and lattice/stream option at the same time.

  • area (list of float, list of list of float, optional) –

    Portion of the page to analyze(top,left,bottom,right). Default is entire page.

    Note

    If you want to use multiple area options and extract in one table, it should be better to set multiple_tables=False for read_pdf()

    Examples

    [269.875,12.75,790.5,561], [[12.1,20.5,30.1,50.2], [1.0,3.2,10.5,40.2]]

  • relative_area (bool, optional) – If all area values are between 0-100 (inclusive) and preceded by '%', input will be taken as % of actual height or width of the page. Default False.
  • lattice (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using lattice-mode extraction (if there are ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • stream (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using stream-mode extraction (if there are no ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • password (str, optional) – Password to decrypt document. Default: empty
  • silent (bool, optional) – Suppress all stderr output.
  • columns (list, optional) –

    X coordinates of column boundaries.

    Example

    [10.1, 20.2, 30.3]

  • format (str, optional) – Format for output file or extracted object. ("CSV", "TSV", "JSON")
  • options (str, optional) – Raw option string for tabula-java.
Returns:

Nothing. Outputs are saved into the same directory with input_dir

Raises:
  • ValueError – If input_dir doesn’t exist.
  • tabula.errors.JavaNotFoundError – If java is not installed or found.
  • subprocess.CalledProcessError – If tabula-java execution failed.
tabula.io.read_pdf(input_path: Union[IO, str, os.PathLike], output_format: Optional[str] = None, encoding: str = 'utf-8', java_options: Optional[List[str]] = None, pandas_options: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None, multiple_tables: bool = True, user_agent: Optional[str] = None, use_raw_url: bool = False, pages: Union[str, int, List[int], None] = None, guess: bool = True, area: Union[Iterable[float], Iterable[Iterable[float]], None] = None, relative_area: bool = False, lattice: bool = False, stream: bool = False, password: Optional[str] = None, silent: Optional[bool] = None, columns: Optional[List[float]] = None, format: Optional[str] = None, batch: Optional[str] = None, output_path: Optional[str] = None, options: str = '') → Union[List[pandas.core.frame.DataFrame], Dict[str, Any]][source]

Read tables in PDF.

Parameters:
  • input_path (str, path object or file-like object) – File like object of target PDF file. It can be URL, which is downloaded by tabula-py automatically.
  • output_format (str, optional) – Output format for returned object (dataframe or json) Giving this option enforces to ignore multiple_tables option.
  • encoding (str, optional) – Encoding type for pandas. Default: utf-8
  • java_options (list, optional) –

    Set java options.

    Example

    ["-Xmx256m"]

  • pandas_options (dict, optional) –

    Set pandas options.

    Example

    {'header': None}

    Note

    With multiple_tables=True (default), pandas_options is passed to pandas.DataFrame, otherwise it is passed to pandas.read_csv. Those two functions are different for accept options like dtype.

  • multiple_tables (bool) –

    It enables to handle multiple tables within a page. Default: True

    Note

    If multiple_tables option is enabled, tabula-py uses not pd.read_csv(), but pd.DataFrame(). Make sure to pass appropriate pandas_options.

  • user_agent (str, optional) – Set a custom user-agent when download a pdf from a url. Otherwise it uses the default urllib.request user-agent.
  • use_raw_url (bool) – It enforces to use input_path string for url without quoting/dequoting. Default: False
  • pages (str, int, list of int, optional) –

    An optional values specifying pages to extract from. It allows str,`int`, list of :int. Default: 1

    Examples

    '1-2,3', 'all', [1,2]

  • guess (bool, optional) –

    Guess the portion of the page to analyze per page. Default True If you use “area” option, this option becomes False.

    Note

    As of tabula-java 1.0.3, guess option becomes independent from lattice and stream option, you can use guess and lattice/stream option at the same time.

  • area (list of float, list of list of float, optional) –

    Portion of the page to analyze(top,left,bottom,right). Default is entire page.

    Note

    If you want to use multiple area options and extract in one table, it should be better to set multiple_tables=False for read_pdf()

    Examples

    [269.875,12.75,790.5,561], [[12.1,20.5,30.1,50.2], [1.0,3.2,10.5,40.2]]

  • relative_area (bool, optional) – If all area values are between 0-100 (inclusive) and preceded by '%', input will be taken as % of actual height or width of the page. Default False.
  • lattice (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using lattice-mode extraction (if there are ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • stream (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using stream-mode extraction (if there are no ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • password (str, optional) – Password to decrypt document. Default: empty
  • silent (bool, optional) – Suppress all stderr output.
  • columns (list, optional) –

    X coordinates of column boundaries.

    Example

    [10.1, 20.2, 30.3]

  • format (str, optional) – Format for output file or extracted object. ("CSV", "TSV", "JSON")
  • batch (str, optional) – Convert all PDF files in the provided directory. This argument should be directory path.
  • output_path (str, optional) – Output file path. File format of it is depends on format. Same as --outfile option of tabula-java.
  • options (str, optional) – Raw option string for tabula-java.
Returns:

list of DataFrames or dict.

Raises:
  • FileNotFoundError – If downloaded remote file doesn’t exist.
  • ValueError – If output_format is unknown format, or if downloaded remote file size is 0.
  • tabula.errors.CSVParseError – If pandas CSV parsing failed.
  • tabula.errors.JavaNotFoundError – If java is not installed or found.
  • subprocess.CalledProcessError – If tabula-java execution failed.

Examples

Here is a simple example. Note that read_pdf() only extract page 1 by default.

Notes:
As of tabula-py 2.0.0, read_pdf() sets multiple_tables=True by default. If you want to get consistent output with previous version, set multiple_tables=False.
>>> import tabula
>>> pdf_path = "https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py/raw/master/tests/resources/data.pdf"
>>> tabula.read_pdf(pdf_path, stream=True)
[             Unnamed: 0   mpg  cyl   disp   hp  drat     wt   qsec  vs  am  gear  carb
0             Mazda RX4  21.0    6  160.0  110  3.90  2.620  16.46   0   1     4     4
1         Mazda RX4 Wag  21.0    6  160.0  110  3.90  2.875  17.02   0   1     4     4
2            Datsun 710  22.8    4  108.0   93  3.85  2.320  18.61   1   1     4     1
3        Hornet 4 Drive  21.4    6  258.0  110  3.08  3.215  19.44   1   0     3     1
4     Hornet Sportabout  18.7    8  360.0  175  3.15  3.440  17.02   0   0     3     2
5               Valiant  18.1    6  225.0  105  2.76  3.460  20.22   1   0     3     1
6            Duster 360  14.3    8  360.0  245  3.21  3.570  15.84   0   0     3     4
7             Merc 240D  24.4    4  146.7   62  3.69  3.190  20.00   1   0     4     2
8              Merc 230  22.8    4  140.8   95  3.92  3.150  22.90   1   0     4     2
9              Merc 280  19.2    6  167.6  123  3.92  3.440  18.30   1   0     4     4
10            Merc 280C  17.8    6  167.6  123  3.92  3.440  18.90   1   0     4     4
11           Merc 450SE  16.4    8  275.8  180  3.07  4.070  17.40   0   0     3     3
12           Merc 450SL  17.3    8  275.8  180  3.07  3.730  17.60   0   0     3     3
13          Merc 450SLC  15.2    8  275.8  180  3.07  3.780  18.00   0   0     3     3
14   Cadillac Fleetwood  10.4    8  472.0  205  2.93  5.250  17.98   0   0     3     4
15  Lincoln Continental  10.4    8  460.0  215  3.00  5.424  17.82   0   0     3     4
16    Chrysler Imperial  14.7    8  440.0  230  3.23  5.345  17.42   0   0     3     4
17             Fiat 128  32.4    4   78.7   66  4.08  2.200  19.47   1   1     4     1
18          Honda Civic  30.4    4   75.7   52  4.93  1.615  18.52   1   1     4     2
19       Toyota Corolla  33.9    4   71.1   65  4.22  1.835  19.90   1   1     4     1
20        Toyota Corona  21.5    4  120.1   97  3.70  2.465  20.01   1   0     3     1
21     Dodge Challenger  15.5    8  318.0  150  2.76  3.520  16.87   0   0     3     2
22          AMC Javelin  15.2    8  304.0  150  3.15  3.435  17.30   0   0     3     2
23           Camaro Z28  13.3    8  350.0  245  3.73  3.840  15.41   0   0     3     4
24     Pontiac Firebird  19.2    8  400.0  175  3.08  3.845  17.05   0   0     3     2
25            Fiat X1-9  27.3    4   79.0   66  4.08  1.935  18.90   1   1     4     1
26        Porsche 914-2  26.0    4  120.3   91  4.43  2.140  16.70   0   1     5     2
27         Lotus Europa  30.4    4   95.1  113  3.77  1.513  16.90   1   1     5     2
28       Ford Pantera L  15.8    8  351.0  264  4.22  3.170  14.50   0   1     5     4
29         Ferrari Dino  19.7    6  145.0  175  3.62  2.770  15.50   0   1     5     6
30        Maserati Bora  15.0    8  301.0  335  3.54  3.570  14.60   0   1     5     8
31           Volvo 142E  21.4    4  121.0  109  4.11  2.780  18.60   1   1     4     2]

If you want to extract all pages, set pages="all".

>>> dfs = tabula.read_pdf(pdf_path, pages="all")
>>> len(dfs)
4
>>> dfs
[       0    1      2    3     4      5      6   7   8     9
0    mpg  cyl   disp   hp  drat     wt   qsec  vs  am  gear
1   21.0    6  160.0  110  3.90  2.620  16.46   0   1     4
2   21.0    6  160.0  110  3.90  2.875  17.02   0   1     4
3   22.8    4  108.0   93  3.85  2.320  18.61   1   1     4
4   21.4    6  258.0  110  3.08  3.215  19.44   1   0     3
5   18.7    8  360.0  175  3.15  3.440  17.02   0   0     3
6   18.1    6  225.0  105  2.76  3.460  20.22   1   0     3
7   14.3    8  360.0  245  3.21  3.570  15.84   0   0     3
8   24.4    4  146.7   62  3.69  3.190  20.00   1   0     4
9   22.8    4  140.8   95  3.92  3.150  22.90   1   0     4
10  19.2    6  167.6  123  3.92  3.440  18.30   1   0     4
11  17.8    6  167.6  123  3.92  3.440  18.90   1   0     4
12  16.4    8  275.8  180  3.07  4.070  17.40   0   0     3
13  17.3    8  275.8  180  3.07  3.730  17.60   0   0     3
14  15.2    8  275.8  180  3.07  3.780  18.00   0   0     3
15  10.4    8  472.0  205  2.93  5.250  17.98   0   0     3
16  10.4    8  460.0  215  3.00  5.424  17.82   0   0     3
17  14.7    8  440.0  230  3.23  5.345  17.42   0   0     3
18  32.4    4   78.7   66  4.08  2.200  19.47   1   1     4
19  30.4    4   75.7   52  4.93  1.615  18.52   1   1     4
20  33.9    4   71.1   65  4.22  1.835  19.90   1   1     4
21  21.5    4  120.1   97  3.70  2.465  20.01   1   0     3
22  15.5    8  318.0  150  2.76  3.520  16.87   0   0     3
23  15.2    8  304.0  150  3.15  3.435  17.30   0   0     3
24  13.3    8  350.0  245  3.73  3.840  15.41   0   0     3
25  19.2    8  400.0  175  3.08  3.845  17.05   0   0     3
26  27.3    4   79.0   66  4.08  1.935  18.90   1   1     4
27  26.0    4  120.3   91  4.43  2.140  16.70   0   1     5
28  30.4    4   95.1  113  3.77  1.513  16.90   1   1     5
29  15.8    8  351.0  264  4.22  3.170  14.50   0   1     5
30  19.7    6  145.0  175  3.62  2.770  15.50   0   1     5
31  15.0    8  301.0  335  3.54  3.570  14.60   0   1     5,               0            1             2            3        4
0  Sepal.Length  Sepal.Width  Petal.Length  Petal.Width  Species
1           5.1          3.5           1.4          0.2   setosa
2           4.9          3.0           1.4          0.2   setosa
3           4.7          3.2           1.3          0.2   setosa
4           4.6          3.1           1.5          0.2   setosa
5           5.0          3.6           1.4          0.2   setosa
6           5.4          3.9           1.7          0.4   setosa,      0             1            2             3            4          5
0  NaN  Sepal.Length  Sepal.Width  Petal.Length  Petal.Width    Species
1  145           6.7          3.3           5.7          2.5  virginica
2  146           6.7          3.0           5.2          2.3  virginica
3  147           6.3          2.5           5.0          1.9  virginica
4  148           6.5          3.0           5.2          2.0  virginica
5  149           6.2          3.4           5.4          2.3  virginica
6  150           5.9          3.0           5.1          1.8  virginica,        0
0   supp
1     VC
2     VC
3     VC
4     VC
5     VC
6     VC
7     VC
8     VC
9     VC
10    VC
11    VC
12    VC
13    VC
14    VC]
tabula.io.read_pdf_with_template(input_path: Union[IO, str, os.PathLike], template_path: Union[IO, str, os.PathLike], pandas_options: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None, encoding: str = 'utf-8', java_options: Optional[List[str]] = None, user_agent: Optional[str] = None, use_raw_url: bool = False, pages: Union[str, int, List[int], None] = None, guess: bool = False, area: Union[Iterable[float], Iterable[Iterable[float]], None] = None, relative_area: bool = False, lattice: bool = False, stream: bool = False, password: Optional[str] = None, silent: Optional[bool] = None, columns: Optional[List[float]] = None, format: Optional[str] = None, batch: Optional[str] = None, output_path: Optional[str] = None, options: Optional[str] = None) → List[pandas.core.frame.DataFrame][source]

Read tables in PDF with a Tabula App template.

Parameters:
  • input_path (str, path object or file-like object) – File like object of target PDF file. It can be URL, which is downloaded by tabula-py automatically.
  • template_path (str, path object or file-like object) – File like object for Tabula app template. It can be URL, which is downloaded by tabula-py automatically.
  • pandas_options (dict, optional) – Set pandas options like {‘header’: None}.
  • encoding (str, optional) – Encoding type for pandas. Default is ‘utf-8’
  • java_options (list, optional) – Set java options like ["-Xmx256m"].
  • user_agent (str, optional) – Set a custom user-agent when download a pdf from a url. Otherwise it uses the default urllib.request user-agent.
  • use_raw_url (bool) – It enforces to use input_path string for url without quoting/dequoting. Default: False
  • pages (str, int, list of int, optional) –

    An optional values specifying pages to extract from. It allows str,`int`, list of :int. Default: 1

    Examples

    '1-2,3', 'all', [1,2]

  • guess (bool, optional) –

    Guess the portion of the page to analyze per page. Default True If you use “area” option, this option becomes False.

    Note

    As of tabula-java 1.0.3, guess option becomes independent from lattice and stream option, you can use guess and lattice/stream option at the same time.

  • area (list of float, list of list of float, optional) –

    Portion of the page to analyze(top,left,bottom,right). Default is entire page.

    Note

    If you want to use multiple area options and extract in one table, it should be better to set multiple_tables=False for read_pdf()

    Examples

    [269.875,12.75,790.5,561], [[12.1,20.5,30.1,50.2], [1.0,3.2,10.5,40.2]]

  • relative_area (bool, optional) – If all area values are between 0-100 (inclusive) and preceded by '%', input will be taken as % of actual height or width of the page. Default False.
  • lattice (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using lattice-mode extraction (if there are ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • stream (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using stream-mode extraction (if there are no ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • password (str, optional) – Password to decrypt document. Default: empty
  • silent (bool, optional) – Suppress all stderr output.
  • columns (list, optional) –

    X coordinates of column boundaries.

    Example

    [10.1, 20.2, 30.3]

  • format (str, optional) – Format for output file or extracted object. ("CSV", "TSV", "JSON")
  • batch (str, optional) – Convert all PDF files in the provided directory. This argument should be directory path.
  • output_path (str, optional) – Output file path. File format of it is depends on format. Same as --outfile option of tabula-java.
  • options (str, optional) – Raw option string for tabula-java.
Returns:

list of DataFrame.

Raises:
  • FileNotFoundError – If downloaded remote file doesn’t exist.
  • ValueError – If output_format is unknown format, or if downloaded remote file size is 0.
  • tabula.errors.CSVParseError – If pandas CSV parsing failed.
  • tabula.errors.JavaNotFoundError – If java is not installed or found.
  • subprocess.CalledProcessError – If tabula-java execution failed.

Examples

You can use template file extracted by tabula app.

>>> import tabula
>>> tabula.read_pdf_with_template(pdf_path, "/path/to/data.tabula-template.json")
[             Unnamed: 0   mpg  cyl   disp   hp  ...   qsec  vs  am  gear  carb
0             Mazda RX4  21.0    6  160.0  110  ...  16.46   0   1     4     4
1         Mazda RX4 Wag  21.0    6  160.0  110  ...  17.02   0   1     4     4
2            Datsun 710  22.8    4  108.0   93  ...  18.61   1   1     4     1
3        Hornet 4 Drive  21.4    6  258.0  110  ...  19.44   1   0     3     1
4     Hornet Sportabout  18.7    8  360.0  175  ...  17.02   0   0     3     2
5               Valiant  18.1    6  225.0  105  ...  20.22   1   0     3     1
6            Duster 360  14.3    8  360.0  245  ...  15.84   0   0     3     4
7             Merc 240D  24.4    4  146.7   62  ...  20.00   1   0     4     2
8              Merc 230  22.8    4  140.8   95  ...  22.90   1   0     4     2
9              Merc 280  19.2    6  167.6  123  ...  18.30   1   0     4     4
10            Merc 280C  17.8    6  167.6  123  ...  18.90   1   0     4     4
11           Merc 450SE  16.4    8  275.8  180  ...  17.40   0   0     3     3
12           Merc 450SL  17.3    8  275.8  180  ...  17.60   0   0     3     3
13          Merc 450SLC  15.2    8  275.8  180  ...  18.00   0   0     3     3
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15  Lincoln Continental  10.4    8  460.0  215  ...  17.82   0   0     3     4
16    Chrysler Imperial  14.7    8  440.0  230  ...  17.42   0   0     3     4
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18          Honda Civic  30.4    4   75.7   52  ...  18.52   1   1     4     2
19       Toyota Corolla  33.9    4   71.1   65  ...  19.90   1   1     4     1
20        Toyota Corona  21.5    4  120.1   97  ...  20.01   1   0     3     1
21     Dodge Challenger  15.5    8  318.0  150  ...  16.87   0   0     3     2
22          AMC Javelin  15.2    8  304.0  150  ...  17.30   0   0     3     2
23           Camaro Z28  13.3    8  350.0  245  ...  15.41   0   0     3     4
24     Pontiac Firebird  19.2    8  400.0  175  ...  17.05   0   0     3     2
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27         Lotus Europa  30.4    4   95.1  113  ...  16.90   1   1     5     2
28       Ford Pantera L  15.8    8  351.0  264  ...  14.50   0   1     5     4
29         Ferrari Dino  19.7    6  145.0  175  ...  15.50   0   1     5     6
30        Maserati Bora  15.0    8  301.0  335  ...  14.60   0   1     5     8
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2  4.9          3.0           1.4          0.2   setosa
3  4.7          3.2           1.3          0.2   setosa
4  4.6          3.1           1.5          0.2   setosa
5  5.0          3.6           1.4          0.2   setosa,
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1  145           6.7          3.3           5.7          2.5  virginica
2  146           6.7          3.0           5.2          2.3  virginica
3  147           6.3          2.5           5.0          1.9  virginica
4  148           6.5          3.0           5.2          2.0  virginica
5  149           6.2          3.4           5.4          2.3  virginica,
    Unnamed: 0 supp  dose
0          4.2   VC   0.5
1         11.5   VC   0.5
2          7.3   VC   0.5
3          5.8   VC   0.5
4          6.4   VC   0.5
5         10.0   VC   0.5
6         11.2   VC   0.5
7         11.2   VC   0.5
8          5.2   VC   0.5
9          7.0   VC   0.5
10        16.5   VC   1.0
11        16.5   VC   1.0
12        15.2   VC   1.0
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tabula.util

Utility module providing some convenient functions.

class tabula.util.TabulaOption(pages: Union[str, int, List[int], None] = None, guess: bool = True, area: Union[Iterable[float], Iterable[Iterable[float]], None] = None, relative_area: bool = False, lattice: bool = False, stream: bool = False, password: Optional[str] = None, silent: Optional[bool] = None, columns: Optional[List[float]] = None, format: Optional[str] = None, batch: Optional[str] = None, output_path: Optional[str] = None, options: Optional[str] = '', multiple_tables: bool = True)[source]

Bases: object

Build options for tabula-java

Parameters:
  • pages (str, int, list of int, optional) –

    An optional values specifying pages to extract from. It allows str,`int`, list of :int. Default: 1

    Examples

    '1-2,3', 'all', [1,2]

  • guess (bool, optional) –

    Guess the portion of the page to analyze per page. Default True If you use “area” option, this option becomes False.

    Note

    As of tabula-java 1.0.3, guess option becomes independent from lattice and stream option, you can use guess and lattice/stream option at the same time.

  • area (list of float, list of list of float, optional) –

    Portion of the page to analyze(top,left,bottom,right). Default is entire page.

    Note

    If you want to use multiple area options and extract in one table, it should be better to set multiple_tables=False for read_pdf()

    Examples

    [269.875,12.75,790.5,561], [[12.1,20.5,30.1,50.2], [1.0,3.2,10.5,40.2]]

  • relative_area (bool, optional) – If all area values are between 0-100 (inclusive) and preceded by '%', input will be taken as % of actual height or width of the page. Default False.
  • lattice (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using lattice-mode extraction (if there are ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • stream (bool, optional) – Force PDF to be extracted using stream-mode extraction (if there are no ruling lines separating each cell, as in a PDF of an Excel spreadsheet)
  • password (str, optional) – Password to decrypt document. Default: empty
  • silent (bool, optional) – Suppress all stderr output.
  • columns (list, optional) –

    X coordinates of column boundaries.

    Example

    [10.1, 20.2, 30.3]

  • format (str, optional) – Format for output file or extracted object. ("CSV", "TSV", "JSON")
  • batch (str, optional) – Convert all PDF files in the provided directory. This argument should be directory path.
  • output_path (str, optional) – Output file path. File format of it is depends on format. Same as --outfile option of tabula-java.
  • options (str, optional) – Raw option string for tabula-java.
  • multiple_tables (bool, optional) – Extract multiple tables into a dataframe. Default: True
area = None
batch = None
build_option_list() → List[str][source]

Convert to tabula-java option list

columns = None
format = None
guess = True
lattice = False
merge(other: tabula.util.TabulaOption) → tabula.util.TabulaOption[source]

Merge two TabulaOption. self will overwrite other fields’ values.

multiple_tables = True
options = ''
output_path = None
pages = None
password = None
relative_area = False
silent = None
stream = False
tabula.util.environment_info() → None[source]

Show environment information for reporting.

Returns:Detailed information like Python version, Java version, or OS environment, etc.
Return type:str
tabula.util.java_version() → str[source]

Show Java version

Returns:Result of java -version
Return type:str

Internal interfaces

tabula.template

tabula.template.load_template(path_or_buffer: Union[IO, str, os.PathLike]) → List[tabula.util.TabulaOption][source]

Build tabula-py option from template file

Parameters:path_or_buffer (str, path object or file-like object) – File like object of Tabula app template.
Returns:tabula-py options
Return type:dict

tabula.file_util

tabula.file_util.is_file_like(obj: Union[IO, str, os.PathLike]) → bool[source]

Check file like object

Parameters:obj – file like object.
Returns:file like object or not
Return type:bool
tabula.file_util.localize_file(path_or_buffer: Union[IO, str, os.PathLike], user_agent: Optional[str] = None, suffix: str = '.pdf', use_raw_url=False) → Tuple[str, bool][source]

Ensure localize target file.

If the target file is remote, this function fetches into local storage.

Parameters:
  • path_or_buffer (str) – File path or file like object or URL of target file.
  • user_agent (str, optional) – Set a custom user-agent when download a pdf from a url. Otherwise it uses the default urllib.request user-agent.
  • suffix (str, optional) – File extension to check.
  • use_raw_url (bool) – Use path_or_buffer without quoting/dequoting.
Returns:

tuple of str and bool, which represents file name in local storage and temporary file flag.

Return type:

(str, bool)